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Can't use my new sowm :( #87
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Hello @steppeno, You're right, sowm is starting. I suspect why you're not able to launch programs is that sowm cannot execute them, which could have any number of culprits. Please try these things:
That will hopefully give you a terminal. Does it? Hope this finds you well, |
Thanks @Unixsys for your fast reply,
Thanks again |
Sorry for my delay.
Amazing! For the time being, you could use that terminal to spawn programs.
Okay; maybe check the permissions on
I'm not very familiar with |
have you resolved this issue? |
I was using ubuntu server, |
Looks like ubuntu server is misconfigured in some way. Most likely, there is lack of proper locale or sowm is compiled differently (ubuntu devs love to patch everything, including gcc and other sowm dependencies). Or there is just a typo in config.h. Mine looks like this and works like a charm on Arch (Alt+t spawns alacritty).
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made a fresh arch install in virtualbox and compiled sowm from source, same issue (black screen with mouse)
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I'm trying to restore an old notebook with arch and sowm, installed dmenu and st for default keybinding, added sowm to xinitrc. but upon startx sowm start (i think, black screen with mouse cursor) but no keybinding is taken (dmenu or st)... I need an help
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